How to enable Breadcrumbs

By keanu007 on 4 Jun 2008 at 18:56 UTC

I know this sounds elementary , but I am not sure how I should enable the Breadcrumbs.Is there a checkbox or somthing where I should click to get the Breadcrumbs...somehow I am not it getting it all.

Thank you

Comments

bump--guys I am sure this is something simple

keanu007 commented 4 June 2008 at 20:52

What do I do

Someone should have answered

kiwibytes commented 2 June 2009 at 13:24

Someone should have answered it a long time ago.
Recently, I also got stuck in the same problem and it took me some time before I found out that Breadcrumbs are enabled from Theme option pages of individual themes.

<?php print $breadcrumb; ?>

knalstaaf commented 26 May 2011 at 12:51

This option is not always provided in the theme option page AFAIK.

If this is the case, simply put the following line of code somewhere in the page.tpl.php of your theme-folder: <?php print $breadcrumb; ?>

Now flush the cache.

If that leads to no result or just a "Home"-link while you want a more extensive breadcrumb, put this code in the template.php file of your theme-folder:

/**
* Return a themed breadcrumb trail.
*
* @param $breadcrumb
*   An array containing the breadcrumb links.
* @return a string containing the breadcrumb output.
*/
function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
  if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
	$title = drupal_get_title();
	if (!empty($title)) {
	  $breadcrumb[] = '<div class="breadcrumb-current">'. $title .'</div>';
	}
	return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode(' &rsaquo; ', $breadcrumb) .'</div>';
  }
}

Once this has been done, flush your cache once again and you should be ready to go.

There are modules out there which do the same job and offer extra options for breadcrumbs (e.g. Custom Breadcrumbs, Menu Breadcrumb and even Menu Trails provides a useful breadcrumb system).